Improvement in wheels for vehicles



Wr. ZIERATH. y Wheels for Vehicles.

N0 ,]55,567, Patented Sept.'v29,l874. v

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WILLIAM ZIERATH, OF SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN.

l IMPROVEMENTvIN WHEELS FOR VEHICLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,567, dated September 29, 1874; application filed August 7, 1874. l

To all whom it may conccrn:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM ZIEEATH, of Sheboygan, in the county of Sheboygan and State of Wisconsin, have invented an Improvement in Carriage-Wheels, of which the following is a specification:

The nature otl this invention relates to an improvement in wheels of thatclass whose spoke-tenons are clamped between the flanges of a metallic hub, which is cast in two parts. The object of the invention is to form' one half of the hul) and the box in one piece, and the other half in another, to screwonto the prowhich projects a trifle beyond the outer end of the box. The wheel is secured on the axle by a nut on the outer end of the latter, which is screwed on an end projecting' beyond the hub. The spokes B are beveled at the shank, lso that when laid between the flanges they form a circle of solid wood. The tenons are dovetailed at a a on their inner ends, which d0vetails are received in a half dovetail recess turned in each hub-flange, which thereby prevents the withdrawal of any spokewhile the tenons are rlnly clamped Without bolting through the iianges.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The flanged hub-section A, provided with the box A1, externally threaded to receive the flanged nut A2, the sections having plain and dovetailed recesses, to receive the corresponding tenons c of the spokes B, all combined substantially as described.

WILLIAM ZIERATH.

Witnesses J. Q. ADAMS, J. A. GAss. 

